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According to a story in the New York Times, the PA security forces are divided, weak, overstaffed, badly motivated and underarmed. This assessment was the conclusion of a report prepared by a group called Strategic Assessments Initiative and was funded the Dutch and Canadian governments.
What remains of the large Jewish cemetery in Vilna is being
threatened with total destruction at the hands of private
entrepreneurs planning to build one of Eastern Europe's
largest commercial centers at the site. Gedolei olom
and tens of thousands of Vilna Jews lie buried at the 500-
year-old cemetery.
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy visited Sinai, a
Jewish day school located in Paris' 18th arrondissement,
after three Arab teenagers were arrested on suspicions of
throwing bottles filled with a chlorine solution into the
school yard and the beis knesses. "He who attacks Jews
attacks the French Republic," Sarkozy declared.
The Jerusalem Religious Council withdrew its High Court petition against the Chief Rabbinate and against HaRav Adler and HaRav Efrati, the two rabbonim now authorized to issue kashrus certificates to Jerusalem's business establishments.
The Knesset Finance Committee approved the government's multi-
year proposals for tax reform for their second and third
Knesset readings. The vote was 12:4: Likud, Shinui, the
religious, chareidi, and right-wing parties voted in favor;
Labor and Yahad voted against.
Thousands of soldiers and policemen began intensive training
on Monday at the Tze'elim army base for the pullout from the
Gaza Strip. The army constructed a mock settlement there,
known as "Chicago," that was adapted from what was once a
mock Palestinian village used to train anti-terror forces.
Rav Vaye recently published a second edition of Volume I of his sefer, with updates to several of the entries. (For those who already own the first edition, a booklet is available containing just the updates). He also came out with an update to his Hebrew pamphlet summarizing the checking of various foods. Below we present some of the highlights, rendered into English.
Degel HaTorah Withdraws No Confidence Motion Degel HaTorah announced Sunday night the postponement of its
no-confidence motion that had been scheduled for Monday based
on directions from gedolei Yisroel shlita.
Intel, the company which makes the computer brains for most
of the personal computers in the world, will build a second
factory in Kiryat Gat for $4 billion, Intel CEO Dr. Craig
Barrett told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday.
What are the Values Behind the Objections to the
Disengagement?
This is a question to which we do not know the answer. However we do know that whatever they are, really, they are not values with which we can identify. Introduction Rav Avrohom Yeshayohu Kanievsky, a grandson of the Steipler's, writes in his biographical work about his grandfather, "I asked our teacher for his opinion of all the modern gadgetry that is to be found today in every Jewish home, and about the current way of life where the wife earns a living while the husband is occupied in the tent of Torah.
More Observations . . .
MODERN DAY MESHOLIM AND MUSSAR Two well-stocked vans came into my neighborhood last week to deliver craft supplies to the nursery schools. After all of the local nursery teachers had filled their orders, the drivers allowed some of the neighborhood women to make purchases as well. More Home & Family . . .
The Discovery of the Resting Places of Rashi and the
Baalei Hatosfos The Message of an Earthquake A Mission to Spread Daas Torah Looking for the Best in Yiddishkeit The Immorality of Palestinian Combatants and Noncombatants
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